MYTH: “Abortion should be a decision between a woman and her doctor.”
TRUTH: Involving a “doctor” doesn’t change the nature or reality of abortion; it is still the intentional taking of innocent human life, which is never morally permissible, not even with a doctor’s assent.
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| Hippocrates: doctors must not abort |
- Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath, which for over 2,000 years had the following clause:
I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly, I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.
I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly, I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.
Unfortunately, this clause has been removed in recent years at medical schools in the United States and Western Europe.
- Very often the only doctor involved is the abortionist himself or herself, who frequently does not even speak to the mother before, during or after the “procedure”.
- We quite rightly expect fathers to take responsibility for their children when they are allowed to live; should we deny them the right to protect their unborn children from death by abortion?
- Fathers of aborted babies often undergo great suffering; see “Men Hurt Too” [here] on the Priests For Life website and FatherhoodForever [here]. Shouldn’t they have a say in the decision?
- The aborted child, who is most directly affected by abortion, has no say at all.
The idea for the arguments above comes from Randy Alcorn’s Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments.
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